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GTA Children To Receive 100 Free Computers June 12th

Over the past several months, the Little Geeks Foundation staff and Board of Directors have worked hard to lay the groundwork to deliver on our mandate: To enhance the lives of children by providing computers to the underprivileged families within our community.

Thanks to the generous donations of the Foundation’s individual and corporate sponsors, I am very excited to announce that on June 12th at 3PM, The Little Geeks Foundation will hold an event and give refurbished computers, complete with Windows XP and Microsoft Office to 100 families of underprivileged children, free of charge.

This very special event will be held on June 12th from 3PM until 7PM at:

St Andrew’s United Church
117 Bloor Street East
Toronto, Ontario
(Google Map)

If you have a child in need of a computer, you can visit the Little Geeks Website to register. Once qualified, recipients will be contacted by a member of the Little Geeks staff to attend this event and pickup their free computer. NOTE: Don’t forget to register, you must register to be qualified to receive a computer.

Recipients of our computers are screened and selected in advance for the event, but media and supporters of Little Geeks are also invited to attend this event to learn more about our Foundation’s mission and the environmental and social roles The Little Geeks Foundation serves within our community.

Rohit Bhargava, marketer, blogger, speaker and author of the much anticipated book Personality Not Included, will be at the Pogue Mahone Irish Pub, giving away signed copies of his book. Radian6 sez make sure you say hi to Tim Tozer from Radian6, on your way in. He’ll direct you to the reserved cocktail section for the event. They’ve booked room for 30 people to attend, so be there early to claim your spot.

Please come and join us after mesh for the mesh wrap party, hosted by our good friends at Edelman. Continue the conversation at L’espresso bar Mercurio at Bloor and St. George, from 5 to 7 p.m. on the last day of mesh – Thursday, May 22. See you there!!

I’m excited about everything we have coming up, but meshU is really starting to take shape and it’ll be a blast. Nice words from John about the lineup: “I am planning on doing something really special for the presentation because, to be honest, I am totally intimidated by the other speakers.” Join us! Tickets are on sale here.

Garrett co-founded StumbleUpon in 2001 with several university friends while he was finishing his degree in software engineering at the University of Calgary. He and a couple of the other members of the StumbleUpon team later moved to San Francisco after getting venture financing, and last year the company was acquired by eBay for $75-million. Garrett is still responsible for StumbleUpon’s product design and strategy, and the service has more than 3.5M members.

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This is cool – Mahalo Daily has an interview with Ethan on YouTube. If you joined us at mesh07 you might remember Ethan from a panel on media. This year he’s returning as a keynote. We’re big fans and the interview is great – get a preview of what we’ll be discussing with Ethan at mesh08!

Head over to the sign-up form and make your pitch — in 250 words or less — about you and your company or idea, and tell us why we should give you five minutes in front of the mesh crowd. If you get selected, you get a free one-day pass to the conference as well as those five minutes of glory. Of course, past winners aren’t eligible, and you must be this big to apply.

Now, as we get going on mesh08, we’re going through them again and thinking about possibilities, and once again we’d like to ask you for your thoughts. First, if you didn’t get a chance to comment on mesh07, here’s the original post – leave us a comment if you have any suggestions. Second, we’d like to hear from you on specific panel or workshop or other session ideas for mesh08. We’ve made it pretty far on our own by just speaking with people here and there, but we wanted to open things up further and get your input right here on the blog – if there’s a speaker or a topic or something else you want to see at mesh08, please speak up and let us know what you think. We can’t promise that your idea will make it to mesh, but we do promise to take every suggestion seriously and to do our best to make mesh08 worth your while.

So we’d like to ask everyone who came to mesh – whether you were a speaker or a guest – and anyone who didn’t come – whether because mesh07 wasn’t quite what you wanted or just because you couldn’t make it – to chime in and give us comments on what you’d like to see at mesh, how we could make it better, things we didn’t quite get right – or anything else you’d like to say to help us make mesh better.

You can leave your comments on this blog if you’d like, or just email them to us at info@meshconference.com. And once again, thanks for meshing with us.